ME & YOU

Where are you?

Kevin's eyes open to birds chirping in the tropical atmosphere over him. He looks around and finds himself stranded in the middle of the jungle. He immediately runs towards the beach.

"NATASHA!!" He screamed at the top of his lungs. "NATASHA, WHERE ARE YOU?"

No response. He keeps running without a break until he sees the sun bright and clear. His heart was beating with scary thoughts going all inside his mind.

"Will she be fine? Did she disappear with the glitch? Am I the reason for all of this? Why didn't she tell me about anything."

He kept running till he could get a glimpse of her. Finally, once he reached the beach, He saw the silhouette of a young girl. Her hair swaying with the breeze while sitting on rocks near the shore. The round yellow sun was settling down slowly over the horizon.

"Natasha."

He went forward and sat next to her. Natasha didn't budge or move. He turned to look at her face and saw tears dripping from her eyes.

"Kevin, I have something to tell you."

"Why didn't you tell me before?"

"About?"

"That night."

"I couldn't. Tho... those thoughts haunt me... haunt me, Kevin. I have been trying my best to move on but every time I get these cold shivers when something touches me by mistake. Those helpless screams..."

She gave out a huge sigh as she remembered the past. 

"I feel the marks on my wrist... Tied to the bed with handcuffs. I tried to pull out Kevin but... I just kept feeling the pain... more and more. That's the reason I slapped you that day. It reminded me of the grasp of handcuffs." She cried. "I told Shruti I didn't want to she told me it was going to be fun and I just fell for it.

Kevin clenched his teeth in anger. Slow Tears dripped from his eyes. Natasha took a deep breath, wiping the tears from her eyes.

"I am sorry...So... So sorry for not being there. Not being ... there for you." He sobs with his teeth gritting. The mix of guilt and anger was burning his heart like a forest fire.

"No, don't."

"I a..."

His words were trapped between her light pink lips pressing against his. Their tongues were intertwined with her hands grasping Kevin's face. Kevin could still feel the wet tears on her cheek. Their eyes closed thinking about the one feeling. Both were lost in each other in this lost island.

Natasha opened her eyes and pulled herself back. Kevin slowly opens his eyes looking back at Natasha with a smile. She let out a thin smile with the dried tears on her cheeks. Kevin puts both his hands below her eyes and strokes her lids.

"I will always be there with you. Don't ever hide anything like that from me ever again. Okay?"

"Okay." She laughed midst that sadness. "Thanks."

"That's it? What about 'I LOVE YOU'."

"You have received enough for the day." She laughed, slapping him lightly on the head.

Both of them laughed, turning their faces to the sun setting over the horizon. Natasha slowly rests her head on Kevin's shoulder. For a few minutes, it was just quiet love communicating with each other. Then, Kevin felt a jerk in his body out of Nowhere. Natasha was startled by the immediate jerk.

"Kevin, what is happening?"

Kevin understood the signal.

"I am sorry. I have to leave."

"Where?"

"I will tell you when I come back. I promise."

Kevin ran immediately towards the forest, leaving Natasha sitting over those rocks. *I hate the second something like this happens. I can't let her know anything about this. * He felt the jerk again while running. He laid himself down on the sand and closed his eyes. After a few seconds, He woke up back on the bed. He noticed Sally with a knife standing next to the bed towards his right.

He turned front to find the assassin with a screwdriver in his hand.

"What is happening?" Kevin asked cluelessly.

The assassin switches his gaze to Kevin and notices the pendant hanging of his neck.

"Give that to me, son. Otherwise, I will kill you."

"You are going to threaten me with a screwdriver?"

"This was enough to hurt your sister."

Kevin looked up and down at Sally. That's when he noticed the blood dripping off her abdomen. 'HE STABBED WITH A SCREWDRIVER?'

"GIVE IT TO ME!! FAST!! I don't have time to play with children." He drops the screwdriver and pulls out the gun which was right above his ass.

"Woah! Woah! Okay. I am giving." Kevin shouted.

Kevin slowly moves forward with his kneels crawling over the bed. The assassin's eyes did not shift from Kevin. Kevin's heart was beating faster and faster with every step he was getting closer. Then, a metal rod hits the assassin in the head leaving a ringing sound. That one hit starts to make him feel dizzy off his feet. He touches his hair with his left hand and finds blood smeared all over his fingers.

Kevin, Natasha and the assassin turned their heads at once. Jeevan was holding the metal rod in his hand. His eyes bulged out griming with anger.

"HOW DARE YOU ATTACK THEM?"

He runs forward to hit him with the rod. In panic, the assassin shoots the bullets of his gun over his body. One to the chest, two to his abdomen and a fourth to his shoulder.

"NO!!!"

Jeevan falls off his feet on the marble floor. The metal rod slipped off his hands. The assassin rests his neck back on the floor and falls unconscious. Kevin ran towards Jeevan.

"Uncle, I am sorry. One minute, I will call the ambulance."

"No... No... My time is up, Kevin. Thank you... Thank you for being there."

"No, Uncle. There's still time." He cried.

"I ... will ... meet ...Natasha. Thank..."

Then, His breath stopped. He was lying frozen on the floor. Kevin cried with his head over his body. His uncle, mom and mutual dad were now all dead. Just dead. Sally was standing behind wiping the tears from her eyes watching both of them.

Kevin gets back on his knees and walks towards the unconscious assassin's body. Anger rushing in his veins 

"Kevin, what are you doing?" Sally asked.

Kevin pulls the gun from the assassin's hand and points it to his head.

"Doing what you should have done a long time back."